The Seventh Veil

"Im grateful to you for some of the things youve done for me, but Ill never forgive you for some of the others."

"It Dares Strip Bare a Womans Mind"

"Yes, I think I can promise you a complete cure. But, uh, you have to prepare yourself for a new Francesca. A new and a very different person....You see the past is over for her now, quite over. Her mind is clear and the clouds have been swept away. Shes no longer afraid. Whether you will be entirely satisfied with the change in her, I dont know, but it might be wise not to expect too much...Im trying to tell you she will want to be with the one she loves, or the one shes been happiest with, or the one she cannot do without, or the one she trusts."

"Dr. Kendall, a surgeon doesnt operate without first taking off the patients clothes, nor do we with the mind. You know what, uh, Staples says? The human mind is like Salome at the beginning of her dance, hidden from the outside world by seven veils: veils of reserve, shyness, fear. Now with friends, the average person will drop first one veil, then another, maybe three or four altogether. With a lover, she will take off five, or even six, but never the seventh. Never, you see the human mind likes to cover its nakedness too and keep its private thoughts to itself. Salome drops her seventh veil of her own free will, but you will never get the human mind to do that, and that is why I use narcosis. Five minutes under narcosis and down comes the seventh veil. Then we can see what is actually going on behind it. Then we can really help."

"James Mason - Nicholas Cunningham"

"Albert Lieven - Maxwell Leyden"

"Is There Always a SEVENTH VEIL Between a Woman and the Men Who Love Her?"

"Ann Todd - Francesca Cunningham"

"You are the one beautiful thing thats been in my life. I cant live without you. You must know that. I cant give you up. I wont give you up. Youre a great artist! Great artists dont just happen. They have to be made, and I have made you. I spent ten years training you, mold you. Youll be my lifes work. And now you want to throw it all away with a man who doesnt even want to marry you. Francesca, listen to me! You cant stand up against me. You dont have the strength. Youll do as I say. I demand that you give up this man. I demand that you send him away...You belong to me. We must always be together. You know that, dont you? Promise youll stay with me always! Promise! Very well, if thats the way you want it. Very well, if you wont play for me, you shant play for anyone else ever again. [strikes her hands with his cane]"